Tag Archives: scenic nature

Last week I had the pleasure of going on a six day, five night Backroads San Juan Islands Singles-Solos Multisport Tour. If you’re curious, here are my photos from the Wine Country to San Francisco Bike Tour that I shot last October. This San Juan Islands trip was less strenuous than the Wine Country trip was but …

The Insightful Landscape is a collaborative book project that features the works of 26 landscape photographers (including myself). There is some seriously top-notch landscape photography in this book. All profits from the book’s sale are donated to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation on behalf of Peter Carroll’s son, Liam. Several hundred dollars have been donated so far. …

I’ve been an avid user of Tony Kuyper’s Luminosity Masks for several years now and have written about it several times (Luminosity Masks blog post, Saturation Masks blog post) so Tony sent me his new TKActions Panel to play around with. You can see the panels on the above and below images. If you want …

I shot these photos during a brief camping trip along the Mendocino Coast. Our main focus was on enjoying the camping experience and driving down the coast since neither of us had been down that route before so I didn’t shoot many photos. I could probably spend at least a week shooting this area alone …

Dunsmuir is best-known in landscape photography circles as the home of Mossbrae Falls; a rather unique waterfall that is probably the most often photographed location in the Mount Shasta region. Access has been illegal for the past several years due to railroad safety concerns so I skipped it on this visit. (Sorry to disappoint but …

It had been ten years since my one and only visit to the Mount Shasta region. During my previous visit, I had planned on camping for a week but I ended up badly dehydrated after one day due to the hot summer weather so I cut the trip short and went home the following day. …

My friend, Gary Crabbe, at his workshops and lectures often gives the advice to determine what you like about a scene then just focus on that and discard the rest (to paraphrase here). I believe that advice was handed down to him from his mentor, Galen Rowell. And it really does work. If there is …

I went to Yosemite this past weekend with my friend, John, in hopes of photographing Yosemite Valley in fresh snow. A 100% chance of rain was predicted for most of the day on Saturday with snow forecasted over the evening and morning hours. It didn’t quite work out that way as it didn’t rain at …